Do you know where this is?

The building in this photo had a rare distinction (during part of its tenure) as being the only one with a grassy lawn in this typical Worcester neighborhood.

Kalashian Bros. Inc. ran a family business making "velvet" ice cream in this building, which they built in 1920. Although they sold ice cream, it was a wholesale establishment, not a storefront. Customers were not lounging on the lawn after they bought a cone from a window.

Instead, the company made the ice cream inside and sent it out in trucks to be delivered to the store or shop, where customers would enjoy its velvety goodness.

They had some fairly exotic flavors for the time, a family member recalls — orange pineapple, frozen pudding and pistachio — enough to make one's mouth water, even today. The first Eskimo Pie machine purchased in Worcester was bought by the family in 1922.

It was, in truth, a business started by an Armenian immigrant family who arrived, as many did, around the turn of the century to make their fortune in the United States.

They started their business as George Kalashian Ice Cream in 1901 in a building farther up the street, making ice cream and candy.

The business seen here in the early part of the 20th century (the automobiles seen in the photo date it to about 1920) lasted until the late 1950s.

Hint: The lawn would have been a little hint of — appropriately enough — "green" in this city neighborhood.